The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-10-20
Generalities.

Generalities.
collection of 1853 spoos gla,ltlens the
hcart OF young lady in Missouri.
President Cleveland was at Kansas City. Mo.
Thursday, where he laid the corner stone of the
new Young Mems Christian Association Build
! ing.
| Massachusetts pays for maintaining her con-
| victs $sOO,O00 per year more than they pro-
duce.
| Frank James, the cN-bandit, is to become
! salesman for an Atlanta (Gcorgia) dry goods
| house.
! yacht, with AL electric motor, intended for
] George Westinghouse. has arrived in New
/ York.
Lady Brassey died on board the Sunbeam,
! her husbands yacht while bound for Australia,
and was buried at sea.
| San Francisco business men are organizing a
Public Defense Committee to freak up Jury
bribing and other evils.
George Westinghouse, Jun. inventor of the
air-brake, is worth S9,0OO,O0O A large fortune
to be made out of wind.
The United States Fish Commissioner is about
to establish station off Gloucester for the art-
fetal propagation of Goldfish.
! The liquor dealers in PENNSYLVANIA have rails
ed 100000 to aid the Democrats in that State.
They know who their friends are.
The city of Baltimore loses Sl3O 900 and Johns
Hopkins University 100000 by the passing of
the Baltimore and Ohio dividend.
giantess, who. though only twelve wears
and five months old, stands eight feet high and
weighs go pounds, is on exhibition In New
York.
The white topaz found near Pixies Peak is
almost equal in value to the diamond A New
York lapdary lately offered 800 for a stone
and was refused.
I 1t has been discovered that the National Bank
at Stafford, Conn. has been robbed by its Cash
Ter of more than 100000 The Cashier is I'M
der arrest.
Jennie Hopkins, a smart young woman who
Is employed as reporter on the Denver Repub-
lcan, is called 1.-THE best newspaper man in
Colorado.''
\ General Sherdan's wife was considered one
OF the hand>omest women ut the Philadelphia
I celebration She has brilliant eyes and displays
fine taste i'll her attire.
! Three thousand men have been employed on
the Canadian Pacific snOW-sheuS since spring
The biggest and strongest sheds are across tile
.Sekirk and Rocky Mountains.
Judge Walton, Of Cor>icana, Texas. has per-
+ formed the marriage ceremony for 49, couples
I during the past eighteen months. His revenue
from tins source exceeds $4,000.
Suit will he brought against the church of
Holy Trinity in New York, for employing ali
/ English clergyman. The action is under the
alien act of the national government.
4 Thomas A. Edison will spend the winter in
California, and will s,muSe himself with efforts
to extract gold from the black sand which
abounds in the mining regions \ large labor
| atory will be built at Thermalito.
| Morris Fox of Danbury, Ct, is doubtless tile
Youngest telegraph operator in the service He
is II years old and began work when only nine
/ lie is an expert, and will soon take position
| IN the main office at New York city.
The Methodi>ts of Nebraska have elected
| Mrs. Angie +. Newman a delegate to their Ma
| tional Conference. She is well known in the
West for her hostility to the Mormon Church.
and is the first woman to be rewarded with
| such dignity.
The Queen Regent OF Spain has signed a de-
cree authorizing the construction of six IRON
cia,s of 1000 tons each, which shall be capable
of attaining speed of from sixteen to twenty
miles an hour: also four large and sixty small
| torpedo boats.
| The Dominion government has chartered the
| steam yacht Green to cruise about the Bay of
| Fundy during the winter in the fisheries pro-
|
| represent the commission for this service along
| the cast coast of Nova Scotia.
The Spanish Government, being convinced
that the revolt of the natives of Ponape was
the result of religious pcrsccuton has ordered
that only those convicted of numbering Span
iard> be punished, and that the indemnity de-
manded by America be paid.
| Florila's Railway Commission has promul-
gated a schedule of rates. Passenger rates are
reduced from - cents per mile to 8 cents.
Freight rates are reduced from third to one
| nall below the present rates. The new rates
are about the same us those of the Georgia
| Commission.
An exchange says: ''The Directors of the
Southern Pacific are considering plan to colo
niZe Southern California by establishing rate
of Sl3 from Chicago to San Francisco, confn-
| ing 1t to emigrants. The present rate of fare
IS 400, SO that the reduction would be about
| 6O per cent.
Edison's new invention, the monograph. will
De placed on the market in few days. The
| inventor claims that the machine will do away
with type writers and stenographers as letters
can be talked into it and paper receiving an i'm
| preston can be sent to the correspondent who
by running it through another photograph can
| hear the contents read off.
| AT gathering of Tory celebrities in London
to which Mr.. Blaine had been invited, says
swung off upon the battles of the Rebellion.
Somebody asked Mr.. Blaine if Getty burg was
really as great an affair as Americans were fond
of claiming. The latter answered that one
item would perhaps satisfy them-that on either
side, Federal or Confederate in that one fight
there We're more artillery engaged than by
Napoleon and Wellington combined at Wa
| terloo. This fact seemed to satisfy Balfour.
| Huntington and the rest, and they lost all fur
Their interest in the subject of American battles.
Great Storm on the Mexican Coast.
One of the most disastrous storms ever
known OH the southern coast of Mexico. occur
| red Oh the eth and Sth inst. The city of Quel-
= ito, town of more then 5000 people. was to-
tally destroyed and many lives lost.
| kilograms give accounts of most affecting
/ scenes. Men, women and children could be
seen floundering in the stormy current and
crying for help which was not at hand. No
particulars are obtanabls as the wires are
down.
Dispatches state that it is supposed that num-
bers of wrecks occurred in the Gulf, but the
| facts cannot be ascertainetl.
| Later dispatches report that the entire coffee
and orange crop in Sinola is destroyed.